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English: Scanned copy of the book A General History of Europe by James Harvey Robinson and James Henry Breasted with the collaboration of Emma Peters Smith. Scanned copy from the Robarts Library of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Toronto via the Internet Archive.
The Penguin History of Europe is a popular book series about the history of Europe, published by Penguin Books. [1] The series includes: The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (2011) by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann; The Inheritance of Rome: Europe 400–1000 (2010) by Chris Wickham
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
The Oxford History of Modern Europe is a series of books on the history of Modern Europe published by the Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) from 1954. [1] The most recent volume appeared in 2022.
The book was on bestseller lists in London for several months [1] but received a famous scathing review in The New York Times by Theodore K. Rabb. [2]In the book, Davies criticises, often in strong language, previous historians and alleges that they have promulgated cliches, which he calls "the Allied Scheme of History".
There was a paperback edition in 1990, a book club edition, an electronic edition, and a DAISY version for the blind. [2] A version with reduced illustrations was published under the variant title The Oxford History of Medieval Europe in 1992. [3] The original text was republished in paperback by Oxford in 2001. [4]
Postwar has been described as "the first major history of contemporary Europe to analyze the stories of Eastern and Western Europe in equal [...] detail"; [27] the book includes more extensive coverage of Eastern Europe than had been common at the time, which journalist Neal Ascherson credits to influence from Norman Davies' 1996 book Europe: A ...